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WHEEL ,988. ented Jan. V24, 1888.

.To all whom t may concern.:

` UNrTED STATES 7 PATENT FOCFEICE. l

JEROME BOLIOK, OE coNovEE, NORTH CAROLINA,k

jwHEEL,

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Parent No. 37 6,938, dared January 24, i888. Application tiled Oetoberi-i, 1887. `Serial No. 252.360. (No model.) l

Be it known that II, JEROME BoL1OK,a citizenof the United States, residing at Conover, in the county of Catawba and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful lm-l provement in Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in wheels, and it consists in a certain novel construction andfarrangement' of parts, fully set forth hereinafter, and specifically pointed out in the claims. y In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is i a perspective view of a'wheel embodying my partlyin section, ofthe same.

improvements. Fig. 2 yis a sidel elevation,

view of the hub.

.Referring by letter to the drawings, A desf third of the entire number of sockets in thel hub.

B designatesa band or'sleeve ,secured around the hub, and having the perforations or openings b therein also arranged in groups of threes on lines extending obliquely across the band. The perforations b are therefore also arranged in three annular series ,similar to the series M N N, and the openingsbregister, respectively, with the sockets ain the hub. These registering sockets andopenings are screw-threaded or tapped. f C C designate the spokes, which are threaded l at the inner ends to screw into 4the tapped open.

ings b and sockets c, and the said spokes are also provided a short'distance from the inner ends with shoulders D D, adapted to bear Aon the band B when the spokes are secured in the hub. t

E designates the rim of the wheel, which is providedwith a series of radial sockets or openings, F F, to receive the outer threaded Fig. 3 isap'lany equally spaced. f

outer endsv of the spokes and bearing against ends of the spokes, the said sockets bei-ng ,f

the inner side of the ri-m, and H H represent washers which are interposed between the.

outer sides of the said nuts and inner side of*V the rim,to prevent the former from marring or,

injuring the latter. Theobject of the nuts will be readily seen. To tighten the spokes in the wheel thevsaid nuts are screwed outward against the inner side of the rim, and the eiect willbe to spreadk the rim with tremendous force, andthus make the wheel very rigid. The shoulders on the inner vends of the spokes, bearing upon the sleeve or band around `the hub, take the strain off the screw-threads on the inner 'ends of the spokes.

When the wheel becomesloose, owing to changes in the weather, all that isnecessary, therefore, is to turnthe nuts G outwardly upon the threaded ends of the spokes and the wheel1 l is tightened, andif one of the spokes is broken or damaged and it is desired to replace it Vby a new one" it may be very easily accomplished.

As before described, the sockets in the huby I arearranged in groups of threes set in oblique lines running across the hub, and the distance first of the nextis the same `as the distance between one socket and the next in the same sel ries.Y v' Ihus in side elevation the appearance, of the wheel is that the spokes are all equally spaced.V "The inner ends of the spokesA are therefore arranged in three distinct annular series, every third spokebelonging to thesame series, and therefore the strain upon any part f ofthe wheel is distributed inV three i different directions. This arrangement of the spokes adds greatly to the lateral strength of the whee1-,whne at the same timeit does not de.

tract from the radial or vertical strength. This is an advantage which wheels not provided with the central radial series of spokesdo not n possess.

The appearance of the wheel isals'o l' :ookv

8c: i between the last socket of one group and the f having metal spokes, and the eiiect will be found beneficial in both cases,owing to the increase of lateral strength as Well as radial or vertical, while the spokes are perfectly straight, there being no necessity for a bend at the point where the inner ends thereof enter the hub or where the outer ends enter the rim.

Having thus described myinvcntion, Iclaim as follows:

l. In a wheel, the combination of the hub A, having the radial sockets a a therein arranged in groups of threes extending obliquely across the hub, the spokes having the threaded outer ends and adapted rto iit at the inner ends in thesockets a, the rim E, having radial openings F therein to receive the outer ends of the spokes, and the nuts G on the threaded i outer ends of the spokes, bearing against the inner side of the rim, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a Wheel, the Combination of the hub having threaded radial sockets a a therein, arranged in groups of threes, the rim having openings F therein, andthe spokes threaded at both ends and inserted, respectively, in the sockets a and the openings F, substantially as specified.

3. In a Wheel, the combination of the hub A, having the sockets a therein arranged in groups of threes on oblique lines, the band or sleeve B, secured around the hub and having a series of openings, b, also arranged in groups of threes and registering with the sockets a, the said registering sockets and openings being tapped, the spokes having threaded inner ends to screw into the sockets and shoulders D to bear on the band B around the openings therein, and the rim E, having radial sockets F F to receive the outer ends of the spokes,al1 constructed andarranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JEROME BOLICK.

Vitnesses: 4

J. D. TAYLOR, Guo. E. COULTER. 

